Even worse there is a set of 3 reports that are run daily and saved then archived. They each have a unique name to which the date in the format mdyyyy is appended.
I sometimes do that with files I’m using, except the latest greatest version has no version number. It’s just “filename evaluation date”
1 Like
I’ll do something like that. Say my file is called RetentionAnalysis. If I’m working on it over a number of days, I might save a version every now and then with a prefix of yyyymmddhh - 2023012614RetentionAnalysis.
I’ll continue to work on the unprefixed version but can go back to a previous stopping point to compare any changes I may have made. If I’ve gone down the wrong rabbit hole, I may save the previous version as the unprefixed version.
What happens after several iterations? Doesn’t it become a pain to rename everything all the time?
Nothing ever gets renamed more than once unless you change your mind about archiving something and bring it back to current.
Let’s say you get a new file to input into Financial Reporting every single day because the fluffheads upstream from you can’t get their 
together. You distribute all 5 versions, naively believing that this will be the final version, so you need to save records of all 5, each one pulling from a different input file.
Mon: Create version V0
Tue: Rename yesterday’s V1; create new V0
Wed: Rename yesterday’s V2; create new V0
Thu: Rename yesterday’s V3; create new V0
Fri: Rename yesterday’s V4; create new V0
The Monday version starts out as V0, gets renamed V1 on Tuesday when it is deemed obsolete and then it is never renamed again.
The Tuesday version starts out as V0, gets renamed V2 and is never renamed again.
Well, unless Sunday they email you back and say “whoops, the Tuesday version was right after all”. Then in that case I’d keep V1, V2, V3, and V4, create V5 from the Friday version, and then copy the Tuesday version to also be V0. If space is an issue you could possibly delete V2, but I wouldn’t unless space was a real issue.
Once a version gets a non-zero number it can never get a different non-zero number.
1 Like
And this is exactly what I did, except the latest greatest version was “ReserveReviewYE2022”, and the intermediate versions were ReserveReviewYE2022V1, ReserveReviewYE2022V2, ReserveReviewYE2022V3, ReserveReviewYE2022V3… Once something got turned into a version, it was dead. The latest greatest was always just “ReserveReviewYE2022”
1 Like
Excel even has a menu item “Save a Copy”
I dislike when people say an 8-team Euro is harder to win than a 16- or 24-team Euro.
The currency? Like… gambling??? I’m confused.
I meant Euro as European Championships in soccer.
Ah, ok.
Some people pay many Euros to watch the Euros.
I’m not sure that this is innumeracy as much as recognition that when talent gets concentrated like that, it can become more difficult to win. When talent is spread out, you can game plan around the “known threat” . . . and you have at least the appearance of “easier to win” . . .
1 Like
I don’t know enough about the diversity of talent at that level, but this seems logical.
sure, but after one round of a 16 team euro (in which upsets, injury, or fatigue can happen) you are left with…an 8 team euro.
Well, if you have a set with 8 teams in Europe that would qualify for an 8-team Euro and call it A. If you have a set with 16 teams in Europe that would qualify for an 16-team Euro and call it B. If you assume A is subset of B, the probability of some team from A winning an 8-team Euro is 1 and the probability of some team from A winning a 16-team Euro is at best 1.
Arbitrage!
1 Like
Are you sure it’s 24 and not 18 eggs? The 5.98 would be pretty close to the 3.99/doz rate for 18 eggs. If it’s 24, then I think the error is what I just pointed out.
That was my first thought so I counted 4X6=24.
I’m guessing the coder put in 18 rather than 24.
When I showed the store lead he said they had been seeing weird things on eggs recently.
We still had about a dozen at home so i only bought 1 package of 24.
1 Like